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From the The Fact Compiler website today http://railwayeye.blogspot.com/2011/02/first-for-exemplary-customer-service.html "This from the Pirate of Penzance... It's been all action on the 12:06 Paddington to Penzance today ... A gentleman got on at Reading and after having his ticket...

In the days of semaphore signals and unfitted freights there was a clear rationale for it but now? My car satnav tells me the speed limit on every section of road and provides a warning of how long till key decision making points are away based on the speed I'm going. How easy would a...

Presently sitting on Platform 1 - anyone know what its doing there

Approximately how much would it cost to move a container by rail from Felixstowe to Manchester and does this compare with it being moved by road?

These are my two favourites The original LMS 'Night Mail' film from 1936 with W.H. Auden poem http://ow.ly/1x9b4 Travel from London to Brighon at 765mph in just 4 minutes in 1952?? http://ow.ly/1wUiD Via britishrailways.tv

Made a rare trip on Chiltern trains this weekend on the Aylesbury Vale line and was surprised how tatty the interior of the trains were. All kept clean but there were many thread-worn seats. Were we just unlucky or is a lot of Chiltern's rolling stock in need of interior refurbishment?

As part of some work for Department for Transport we are seeking radical but sadly low cost ideas for improving rail capacity to and around the West Midlands - both in terms of the number of trains that can be operated and the number of people carried per train Interested in anything from...

Can gold cards issued for an annual standard class season ticket be used to get a discount on first class fares?